Mike Basset
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'Ello lads! My name is Mike Basset, and you may remember me from such gems in my career as taking England to the 2002 World Cup! However, after unsuccessful spells at Newcastle and Wirral County I took at four year sabbatical in Spain! Sun, sea and sand.
Anyway, I returned to England and am very lucky to have been offered the newly vacant West Brom job as Woy has gone to win the Euwos.
View attachment 251839 Don't I look pretteh?
Enough of this chitter-chatter! Let's focus on the football! I sat down and 'ad a long, hard look at the squad under my disposal. Then they asked me why I was staring at them.
For my tactics, I am going to go for a simple and rigid 4-4-2 formation, playing a counter-attacking, short-passing style looking to play with a strong midfield as we will be underdogs in a lot of our fixtures. I told the Board that we should be able to finish in the top half.
View attachment 251840And so with this formation we led our team out to begin our Friendly campaign for the season, against our own Reserves. A dominant 4-0 win! With goals from Odemwingie, Graham Dorrans and two from target man Shane Long!
A good start, and I began to focus on our transfers for the season:
DM Modeste M'Bami - £500k from A'erbin
ST Danny Welbeck - Loan £1m from Man Utd
CM/CAM Felipe Anderson - Loan £500k from Santos.
Always good to have a little South American in the team - that's how Barcelona get by, isn't it?
Two more unknown signings:
CB Johnny Magallón - £3.4m from Chivas
ST Amr Zaki - £1.9m from Zamalek.
My job was also to clear some of the deadwood from this club, and there was lots of deadwood:
CAM Somen Tchoyi - £2.3m to Parma
CB Gabriel Tamas - £3.1m to Espanyol
ST Simon *** - £3.6m to Everton
My transfers done, and preseason finished:
View attachment 251842
I guess it's time to start the season!
Anyway, I returned to England and am very lucky to have been offered the newly vacant West Brom job as Woy has gone to win the Euwos.
View attachment 251839 Don't I look pretteh?
Enough of this chitter-chatter! Let's focus on the football! I sat down and 'ad a long, hard look at the squad under my disposal. Then they asked me why I was staring at them.
For my tactics, I am going to go for a simple and rigid 4-4-2 formation, playing a counter-attacking, short-passing style looking to play with a strong midfield as we will be underdogs in a lot of our fixtures. I told the Board that we should be able to finish in the top half.
View attachment 251840And so with this formation we led our team out to begin our Friendly campaign for the season, against our own Reserves. A dominant 4-0 win! With goals from Odemwingie, Graham Dorrans and two from target man Shane Long!
A good start, and I began to focus on our transfers for the season:
DM Modeste M'Bami - £500k from A'erbin
ST Danny Welbeck - Loan £1m from Man Utd
CM/CAM Felipe Anderson - Loan £500k from Santos.
Always good to have a little South American in the team - that's how Barcelona get by, isn't it?
Two more unknown signings:
CB Johnny Magallón - £3.4m from Chivas
ST Amr Zaki - £1.9m from Zamalek.
My job was also to clear some of the deadwood from this club, and there was lots of deadwood:
CAM Somen Tchoyi - £2.3m to Parma
CB Gabriel Tamas - £3.1m to Espanyol
ST Simon *** - £3.6m to Everton
My transfers done, and preseason finished:
View attachment 251842
I guess it's time to start the season!
